Scoundrels, Educrats, Rogues and Champions

Education: That was the ticket to prosperity. . . Now, not so sure

Wonder if education will play a significant role in the upcoming election. Where's the education meat here?

This video below features James Carville on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show which begins with Carville talking about education at the beginning of the segment, yet drops the education "topic" until the 7:00 mark where he states that the most pressing issues the middle class care most about are rising health care costs and . . . . education.

Rachel, can you dig deeper into education? No one else seems to be doing it.

"His job appears to be to convince a generation of people
who want to do good and do well
to learn, instead, remorselessness.
Forget rules, obligations, your conscience, loyalty, a sense of the commonweal. "
- Jill Lepore

The New Normal? Unless . . . Today, another school shooting. This time in Oregon. One student dead. One teacher injured."All told, there has been nearly one shooting per week in the year and a half since Newtown."...